Lower emissions the upside of downturn
An economic slowdown is an excellent way to lower greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a perverse benefit, but studies of past recessions and slowdowns show that emissions drop when the economy slows down. Obviously officials won’t dwell on that fact for fear of appearing insensitive to the many other downsides of a slowdown.
Shell Oil’s Grim Little List
Shell Oil is working on a global CO2 abatement curve in order to work out where the best carbon savings can be made, but van der Veer, with his pragmatic Dutch manner, refuses to see easy solutions and reiterates that the future is going to be tough.
Change Has Come
“Peak oil is history. And that means economic growth is history, too.” By Guy McPherson Professor of Natural Resources and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona Home Page: Nature Bats Last Change has arrived. After all the hate-filled, mudslinging nastiness, after soaring rhetoric and hollow promises, after lies, rumor, and innuendo, after poor predictions [...]
